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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 9h

Rarely seen a more world weary cat.

Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 10h

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 7h

Why not just ban “Careless Whisper” instead you hater

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 7h

Why doesn’t the screenshot shortcut on Steam Deck work when playing a game on PC desktop with a gamepad

Make it make sense

Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 7h

on brand

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RetroOoOoOo~ BOOmercial Screams @retro-commercials.bsky.social · 1d

This is my new favorite thread on Bluesky.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It is tacky for really famous people to be in TV commercials for products. Their gambling debts/boat repairs are not my problem, those roles should belong to actors like the Time To Make The Donuts guy and the actress who said "who are you calling a cootie queen you lint licker" in that Orbit ad.

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 2d

Bsky PSA:

Post with intention, post with energy dynamics in mind

diagram of five elements with lines showing the interplay between them
the elements are Horseshit (nonsense), Bullshit (not true), Batshit (insane), Apeshit (rambunctious), Dogshit (very poor quality)
Below is a key indicating Generating Interaction and Overcoming Interaction

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Russ @russmedia.bsky.social · 1d

very scary quote from a proponent of three-cueing: "The purpose is not to learn words...the purpose is to make sense." That idea prioritizes looking like you understand versus actually understanding. It's the same idea behind corporate buzzwords. This is teaching children buzzwords, not English.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 2d

remember that article that explained why this was happening?

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 2d

Some days, not too many people are headed to Chicago.

Some days, feels like they all are.

Screen capture from the United Airlines app showing that all upgrades for status are handed out and I’m still 9th in line. I have been flying a fairly decent amount the past two years.

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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton has a weird legacy according to this alert.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 2d

game series with absolutely undefeated energy

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 2d

I read the quoted image in the airport and raised my glance to a non-existent camera to break a non-existent fourth wall

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2d

needs more fonts

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

oh my god, this is real

book cover
Hey Yang, Where's My Thousand Bucks: And Other True Stories of Staggering Depth by Andrew Yang
cover shows Andrew Yang in a hoodie, smiling wildly and holding out 10 $100 bills.

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Nadia Oxford @nadiaoxford.bsky.social · 2d

I'm still on Facebook and every so often I'll share something like this. It's an unspoken message about potentially interacting with me, in the same way a poison dart frog's bright skin lets other animals know interacting with it will probably kill them.

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 2d

So tired of so many “solutions” out there merely being because people are too lazy to read and then think critically.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5d

An image of Roboute Guilliman in his full sci-fi Roman Emperor regalia, gloriously gesturing into the future, overlaid by the text from tumblr user "so many orcs which reads: " *voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

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Ryan Markel @ryanmarkel.com · 3d

Men will gatekeep women from any and all physical or virtual third spaces (hell, SECOND spaces, too; look at workplaces) and then wonder why none of them want to spend time around or with them

Image from The Legend of Zelda: the Moblin saying “it’s a secret to everybody.”

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 3d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...